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"More Likely" and "Less Likely" is not the same as "intimidate is clearly the only thing that will work here". Maybe I particularly want to lessen the insecurity of the coward, to be confident going with my approach is the best option, I'll make it safer!

Rotating DM "duties" can help a lot, I think. The two gaming groups I was part of in my life always had changing GMs, each running their own campaign,and they run concurrently. Some simply used published adventures, others homebrewed stuff. And sure, some are better at it than others, and some...

Half-Dragons, Dragonborn, Dracha, Draconians and what they are called all serve the same role - play a dragon-themed being that's compatible for play. I don't think most players would be worried much if you can play one or the other, but if you can't play anything like that at all, it's...

I never used any romance rules, but I had "romance" in my longest running campaign, a 4E game centered on the idea of restoring the Nerath Empire and fighting off a group of Far Realms that wanted to basically destroy the material world because it its rigid (and for them, alien) structure is...

2 and 3 is the same for Intimidation (especially if you happen to have the same modifier and DCs). And what reasons in the fiction are there for there to persuasion to fail but intimidation to work? How do you communicate this in game so that the players understand this and can take this into...

It seems, I am not smarter than the average Dire Bare.

I mean, in the real world, people can only sprint for so long, so realistically, you should be able to use something like dash only a few minutes or so, but there aren't actually rules specifically for that. I think such details can easily be glossed over, if it needs a bonus action already...

I have an idea for that for my 4E inspired Arcane Evolved homebrew: You choose a primary and a secondary stat and the rest uses the regular column. I currently even include a full random character generation that selects classes and class specilization, species and what you pick for primary and...

And I would definitely disagree with that. It's highly debatable that IQ tests test more than your ability to score on IQ tests, but you can definitely train for them and be better at them - either that means you can improve your Intelligence, or you can't make any conclusions from IQ Tests. (or...

I can absolutely not say where I learned something about the Greek or Nordic Gods and beliefs. I would say I learned more in depth-thing around the time I went into RPG (which was in my adolescent years), but first exposure was definitely sooner than that. Was it school? Was it just reading or...

I kinda like the idea of teleporting as part Wasn't that the forbidden edition whose name shall never mentioned (except all the times it does?) ;) I must admit, sometimes I like the idea of teleport being something reserved more for the Paragon Tier of D&D for my sense of "verisimilitude" or...

I vastly prefer point-buy, though I think it can feel quite boring, because there aren't that many selections that make solid characters. I wish there was a randomization method that guaranteed that whatever my character is supposed to be good at, he's good at, and he is also good at something I...

Actually, that is one of my "peeves" with D&D - stats barely change. 'Realistically', you might start with about average stats everywhere (whatever is average in your environment, the average might be lower if you live in a time and place where people are often malnourished versus someone...

That would depend - do Dragonborn and Tabaxi only live in far-away lands that are rarely visited by Halflings and rarely visit Halfling areas, or do they live in multi-racial/ethnic cosmopilitian cities?

A short rest is an hour in standard D&D, that's way too long, but I understand that a regular action might make it seem way too fast, and anything more than a single action is awkward to handle and difficult to balance. Imagine if someone was carrying multiple loaded muskets, or had a servant...

One thing of note here: I don't think that any Star Trek RPGs include Jedi as class or ability set (though it might have rules for psionics of some sort that could be used to fill some of those functions, but it might not be sufficient without house rules compromises). And I suspect it also...

Maybe Bard, Paladin, Ranger, Warlock probably. Maybe Artificer instead of Bard, and have the Ranger be spell-less except in some Fey/Nature Spirit related subclass. That means associating with powerful supernatural entities is the more common way to access magic, alternatively,y ou have to...

Draw Steel got rid of Constitution, for example. It has only Might, Agility, Reason, Intuition and Presence. 4E had Endurance and 3E had Concentration as Constitution skills, I think that was it. 4E used Constitution for some classes (Warlock for example), however. (I think 3E did for some of...

I think players shouldn't self-police actually. They should just play it as the Int 18 character having the smart idea. Because no one at the table is Int 3, but also no one is Int 18 either, so very likely, the party with that Int 18 Wizard should come up with way smarter plans than any single...

The last D&D character I played was with point buy, the last Pathfinder character was whatever Pathfinder uses with its background, class and race attributes bonuses. And for Shadowrun 6 I spent the build points I was allowed to spend according to my chosen priorities.